Chapter 58

Then he told her something quite different from that which he had meant to tell her. “Do you know who I am?” he asked, and his tone was one of frenzied delirium. “I am a werwolf; I suck man’s blood. Every day my hatred burns up all the blood in my veins, and every night I fill them again by sucking the blood of some human being. If men caught me, they would tear me into little bits. I will bite through your white throat, you tormenting witch!” The Countess started as if stung, and, mad with pain and torture, cried …